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  • Subject: System Configuration
  • From: Michael Saunders <deccomike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:01:30 -0700 (PDT)

 This may not be the correct forum for this topic.

  I'm a programmer with a Florida School district.  We
are beginning the design of a new student information
system, moving from Cobol(not ILE), hoping to use
object oriented technology.  We are currently on an
AS/400 and plan to stay.
  We are complete novices when it comes to OO, no one
on staff has any experience. 
  The software vendor/consultant that is working with
us has come up with the following
system:
  Web-based user interface(Java applets),
communicating through Corba with C++ applications on
the server.  The C++ accesses the DB2 database with
SQL.  The application server would either be an NT or
a Unix box. The database resides on the AS/400.
  These consultants are the only ones to whom we have
talked. They are hoping to get our business for some
of the developement and to mentor our programmers as
we learn OO languages and techniques.  Their
applications developement is built around the above
setup, so this is what they are 'pushing'. I'm pushing
for a second opinion. Preferably from someone who does
NOT have a vested interest in our setup or choice of
products.
  Is the Java-Corba-C++-SQL-DB2 setup an industry
norm?
  Would Websphere provide the same thing?
 

 


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